I am deeply honored to have been invited to speak at this hearing. Today, I do not wish to only call for help as the wife of an incarcerated prisoner of conscience. As I urge the U.K. government to pay attention to the PRC’s political persecution of human rights workers, I would also like to beseech that the U.K. government give notice to the possible influences and pressure that have formed as China arises as a new world power.

The PRC has risen peacefully as the dominant power in the Asia-Pacific region, which deserves respect. However, if it endeavors to use its formidable military and economic strength to realize a dream of Chinese nationalism and expansionism, the PRC will not only become a threat to the Asia-Pacific region but the whole world as well. Unfortunately, China has demonstrated its intention of actualizing such dream. Recently, it has passed an Anti-Secession law, under the delusion that it would give grounds for its unjustified claim to possess a piece of land that it never had—The Republic of China, Taiwan—and subject the people of that island to its dictatorship. Furthermore, it has also passed an Overseas NGO management method, aiming to extend its power to rule over people of the globalized world, forcing them to conform to China’s mode of thinking and doing. It is clear that the PRC intends to export its anti-human-rights and anti-liberty beliefs. My husband is one of the victims under this Chinese expansionism. Of course, the pressure created by the rise of the PRC does not end here, but other issues are beyond my capabilities to discuss.

As an old Mandarin saying goes, “Big Oaks From Little Acorns Grow,” at this time when China presents the lucrative “One Belt One Road Initiative,” we must remind it to not use this initiative as a means to export its anti-human-rights and anti-liberty structure, and, subsequently, place the involved area and people under its expanding dictatorship.

Today, I am here not to talk about my own sorrow and difficulty, nor am I here to plea the U.K. government to rescue my husband out of imprisonment. I am here today to implore the U.K. Parliament to, again, light the fire of humanitarianism, and ask the people of the globalized world to stop the PRC’s expansionism and exportation of its anti-human-rights and anti-liberty mentality. I believe this to be the humble wish of the people, including my husband and I, who are subject to the harms accompanying the heightening of China’s power and influence.

Even though the United Kingdom is no longer "the empire on which the sun never sets,” the greatness of a nation is not to be measured by its population, military strength, or economic power, but to be measured by the brightness of its light in leading the elevation of human civilization.

In conclusion, I implore the U.K. Parliament to light the light of humanitarianism once again. This is a humble request from a distant island country on Asia-Pacific to you.